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- Title
Self-Gift: The Heart of Humanae vitae.
- Authors
Smith, Janet E.; Grabowski, John S.; Budziszewski, J.; Fedoryka, Maria
- Abstract
It is possible to defend the Church's teaching that contraception is incompatible with God's plan for sexuality in many different ways. This essay sketches the fundamental views of reality common to all the defenses and the main lines of the most prominent defenses, some based on natural law (of which there are several versions), on the theology of the body, and on the physical, psychological, and social consequences of the use of contraception. While all the defenses have merit, the argument based on the recognition that sexual intercourse is meant to be a complete self-gift has a special power of its own.
- Subjects
HUMANAE Vitae (Papal encyclical); TEACHING office of the church; HUMAN sexuality; NATURAL law; SOCIAL impact
- Publication
National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, 2016, Vol 16, Issue 3, p449
- ISSN
1532-5490
- Publication type
Article